FreeNAS

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FreeNAS is a free network-attached storage server, supporting: CIFS (Samba), FTP, NFS, rsync, AFP protocols, iSCSI, S.M.A.R.T., local user authentication, and software RAID (0,1,5), with a web-based configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 32 MB once installed on CompactFlash, hard drive or USB flash drive.^[1] FreeNAS is currently distributed as an ISO image and in source form. It is possible to run FreeNAS from a Live CD, with the configuration files stored on an MS-DOS-formatted floppy disk or MS-DOS-formatted USB disk. There is also a VMware disk image available.

The minimal FreeBSD 6.2 distribution, web interface, PHP scripts, and documentation are based on m0n0wall. FreeNAS is released under the BSD license.

Contents 1 Features 2 Awards 3 See also 4 External links 5 References

[edit] Features

• Protocols: CIFS (via Samba), FTP, NFS, SSH, rsync, AFP and UPnP and iTunes.
• Extensions (plug-ins) for: SlimServer via SlimNas, XBMSP via CcXstream.
• rsync server, client and local sync.
• Unison support.
• iSCSI targets feature to create virtual disks.
• iSCSI initiator.
• Dynamic DNS client for: DynDNS, ZoneEdit, No-Ip, and freedns.afraid.org.
• File systems: UFS and ext2/ext3 are fully supported, NTFS read-only supported, and FAT32 read/write supported.
• Hard drive: P-ATA/S-ATA, SCSI, iSCSI, USB and Firewire.
• GPT/EFI partitioning for hard drives larger than 2 Terabytes.
• Networks cards: All wired and wireless cards supported by FreeBSD 6.
• Boot from HDD, CompactFlash, CD-ROM + floppy disk, or USB flash drive.
• Hardware RAID cards: All those supported by FreeBSD 6.2.
• Software RAID levels: 0, 1, 5, JBOD, 5+0, 5+1, 0+1, 1+0, etc. (using GEOM).
• Disk encryption with geli.
• Management of groups and users (Local User authentication or Microsoft Domains).
• S.M.A.R.T. support.
• Remote syslogd forwarding.
• SNMP monitoring (Netgraph and MibII).
• Email log and reporting notification.
• ATA over Ethernet (AoE)

[edit] Awards

• VMware - "Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge, Consumer"^[2]
• sourceforge.net - Project of the Month January 2007^[3]
• InfoWorld - Best of open source in storage^[4]

[edit] See also

• CryptoNAS - NAS especially for encrypted partitions (Debian-based Live-CD, GPL)
• NanoNAS
• NASLite
• NexentaStor - Advanced enterprise-level NAS software solution (Debian/OpenSolaris-based)
• Openfiler
• Sun Open Storage

[edit] External links

• FreeNAS Homepage
• FreeNAS was featured on the September 5, 2006 2x02 episode of Hak5.^[5]
• FreeNAS was featured on the March 1, 2007 episode 144 of DL.TV.^[6]
• FreeNAS was featured on the July 14, 2008 episode 60 of Systm.
• FreeNAS Tour - a series of good tutorials about using FreeNAS

[edit] References